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September 2026 bulletin

EB-3 All Other Green Card Wait Time

Skilled Workers and Professionals, chargeability All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed. Every Visa Bulletin from December 2001 to September 2026.

Final action date
Sep 1, 2024
September 2026 bulletin
Date for filing
Current
September 2026
Current backlog
2.0 yr
bulletin month minus cutoff date
Pace, last 12 bulletins
+43 d
average movement per bulletin
Projected wait
1.5 yr
at the last 24 bulletins’ pace

How the EB-3 All Other cutoff date has moved

200520102015202020252001-122026-09
EB-3 All Other final action dates, December 2001 to September 2026. The solid line is the published cutoff date. The dashed line is the bulletin's own month, so the vertical distance between them is the size of the backlog at that moment. Months shown as Current or Unavailable have no cutoff date and are skipped.

The last twelve bulletins

BulletinFinal action dateMovedDate for filing
September 2026 Sep 1, 2024 ▲ +31 days Current
July 2026 Aug 1, 2024 ▲ +61 days Current
June 2026 Jun 1, 2024 no movement Current
May 2026 Jun 1, 2024 no movement Current
April 2026 Jun 1, 2024 ▲ +244 days Current
March 2026 Oct 1, 2023 ▲ +122 days Jan 15, 2024
February 2026 Jun 1, 2023 ▲ +40 days Oct 1, 2023
January 2026 Apr 22, 2023 ▲ +7 days Jul 1, 2023
December 2025 Apr 15, 2023 ▲ +14 days Jul 1, 2023
November 2025 Apr 1, 2023 no movement Jul 1, 2023
October 2025 Apr 1, 2023 no movement Jul 1, 2023
September 2025 Apr 1, 2023 no movement May 1, 2023

When this category went backwards

The cutoff date for EB-3 All Other has retrogressed 8 times in the published record. A retrogression means the State Department pulled the date back, so people who were about to become eligible went back into the queue.

BulletinFromToDays lost
September 2024Dec 1, 2021Dec 1, 2020 ▼ -365 days
July 2024Nov 22, 2022Dec 1, 2021 ▼ -356 days
August 2023Feb 1, 2022May 1, 2020 ▼ -641 days
July 2023Jun 1, 2022Feb 1, 2022 ▼ -120 days
June 2014Oct 1, 2012Apr 1, 2011 ▼ -549 days
May 2009Mar 1, 2003Unavailable became unavailable
April 2009May 1, 2005Mar 1, 2003 ▼ -792 days
July 2008Mar 1, 2006Unavailable became unavailable

Where these numbers come from

Final action dates and dates for filing are taken from the monthly Visa Bulletin published by the U.S. Department of State. Each bulletin is parsed into a machine-readable record and checked against the published page before it is committed, so the series here is the bulletin's own wording, not a restatement of it. The movement and backlog columns are arithmetic on those dates and are described on the methodology page.

Source

Every date on this page comes from the September 2026 Visa Bulletin published by the U.S. Department of State. Nothing here is estimated, interpolated or filled in, and the designations Current and Unavailable are reproduced exactly as printed.

This bulletin as published.

Backlog years, pace and projections are arithmetic on those dates and are described on the methodology page. Corrections: data@visabacklog.com.

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